irq conflict laptop with 5.1-current
Hello, Running my laptop Compaq Armada 7400 with 5.1-CURRENT from about two days ago. The OHCI (USB) is on IRQ 11 and the PCCARD/CARDBUS also. I now get a 'arp: unknown hardware address format (0x)' errors. The 0x can also be 0x2063 or oxfc00 or something else. I think it's an irq conflict, but don't know how to give the different device other irq's. In 5.1-RELEASE it all worked ok. Any idea's? Is my idea about the irq conflict right or is it something else? How van I solve this? I wil include the dmesg output here. Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #0: Wed Oct 22 05:41:44 CEST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src-current/src/sys/LAPTOP Preloaded elf kernel /boot/kernel/kernel at 0xc074a000. Preloaded elf module /boot/kernel/if_ep.ko at 0xc074a1a4. Preloaded elf module /boot/kernel/elink.ko at 0xc074a250. Preloaded elf module /boot/kernel/snd_ess.ko at 0xc074a2fc. Preloaded elf module /boot/kernel/snd_pcm.ko at 0xc074a3a8. Preloaded elf module /boot/kernel/snd_sbc.ko at 0xc074a454. Preloaded elf module /boot/kernel/acpi.ko at 0xc074a500. Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (266.68-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x652 Stepping = 2 Features=0x183f9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR real memory = 100622336 (95 MB) avail memory = 92291072 (88 MB) Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled npx0: [FAST] npx0: math processor on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface acpi0: COMPAQ CPQB0B9 on motherboard pcibios: BIOS version 2.10 Using $PIR table, 7 entries at 0xc00f0990 acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter ACPI-safe frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 can't fetch resources for \\_SB_.C09B - AE_AML_INVALID_RESOURCE_TYPE can't fetch resources for \\_SB_.C187 - AE_AML_INVALID_RESOURCE_TYPE can't fetch resources for \\_SB_.C188 - AE_AML_INVALID_RESOURCE_TYPE can't fetch resources for \\_SB_.C189 - AE_AML_INVALID_RESOURCE_TYPE can't fetch resources for \\_SB_.C18A - AE_AML_INVALID_RESOURCE_TYPE can't fetch resources for \\_SB_.C18B - AE_AML_INVALID_RESOURCE_TYPE can't fetch resources for \\_SB_.C18C - AE_AML_INVALID_RESOURCE_TYPE acpi_timer0: 32-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0xc88-0xc8b on acpi0 acpi_cpu0: CPU on acpi0 acpi_tz0: Thermal Zone on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 pcib0: _CRS resource entry has unsupported type 14 pcib0: _CRS resource entry has unsupported type 14 pcib0: _CRS resource entry has unsupported type 14 pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 0.1 on pci0 pcib1: could not get PCI interrupt routing table for \\_SB_.C000.C013 - AE_NOT_FOUND pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 pci1: display, VGA at device 0.0 (no driver attached) cbb0: TI1250 PCI-CardBus Bridge mem 0x7fffe000-0x7fffefff irq 11 at device 12.0 on pci0 cardbus0: CardBus bus on cbb0 pccard0: 16-bit PCCard bus on cbb0 cbb0: [MPSAFE] cbb1: TI1250 PCI-CardBus Bridge mem 0x7000-0x7fff irq 11 at device 12.1 on pci0 cardbus1: CardBus bus on cbb1 pccard1: 16-bit PCCard bus on cbb1 cbb1: [MPSAFE] isab0: PCI-ISA bridge at device 14.0 on pci0 isa0: ISA bus on isab0 atapci0: GENERIC ATA controller port 0x1000-0x100f,0-0x3,0-0x7,0-0x3,0-0x7 at device 14.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata0: [MPSAFE] ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 ata1: [MPSAFE] ohci0: OHCI (generic) USB controller mem 0x4408-0x44080fff irq 11 at device 14.2 on pci0 usb0: OHCI version 1.0 usb0: SMM does not respond, resetting usb0: OHCI (generic) USB controller on ohci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: (0x0e11) OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered acpi_button0: Sleep Button on acpi0 acpi_lid0: Control Method Lid Switch on acpi0 acpi_acad0: AC Adapter on acpi0 acpi_cmbat0: Control Method Battery on acpi0 acpi_cmbat1: Control Method Battery on acpi0 acpi_cmbat2: Control Method Battery on acpi0 acpi_cmbat3: Control Method Battery on acpi0 atkbdc0: Keyboard controller (i8042) port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0 atkbd0: AT Keyboard flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 psm0: PS/2 Mouse irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 ppc0 port 0x778-0x77a,0x378-0x37f irq 7 drq 3 on acpi0 ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppbus0: Parallel port bus on ppc0 lpt0: Printer on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: Parallel I/O on ppbus0 sio0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0 sio0: type 16550A sio1: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio1: port may not be enabled fdc0: Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone) port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: 1440-KB 3.5 drive on fdc0 drive 0 sio1: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio1: port may not be enabled
Re: irq conflict laptop with 5.1-current
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:45:28 +0200 From: Ronald Klop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Forwarding to -current; -questions and searching the net didn't give an answer.) Hello, Running my laptop Compaq Armada 7400 with 5.1-CURRENT from about two days ago. The OHCI (USB) is on IRQ 11 and the PCCARD/CARDBUS also. I now get a 'arp: unknown hardware address format (0x)' errors. The 0x can also be 0x2063 or oxfc00 or something else. I think it's an irq conflict, but don't know how to give the different device other irq's. In 5.1-RELEASE it all worked ok. Any idea's? Is my idea about the irq conflict right or is it something else? How van I solve this? It's something else. On recent FreeBSD releases, both V4 and V5, PCMCIA devices share the IRQ of the CardBus bridge. This is almost fixed. You can use a sysctl to use the old ISA interrupts which are not shared, but this is NOT a good idea. Try 'vmstat -i' and notice that the various network cards and many other PCI devices are not listed. Instead there is a 'mux' device which is the shared interrupt. PCI devices may use either the shared interrupt or a unique interrupt depending on how BIOS is configured, but the PCMCIA devices (either PCcard or CardBus) have to use the same IRQ as the bridge to which they are connected. The probable cause is a memory conflict (as indicated by the dmesg). This is being worked on, but, until it is fixed, you need to specify a start address for the card's memory. It must be greater then than the highest physical address of RAM and must not conflict with that of other devices. Add 'hw.cbb.start_memory=0x2000' to /boot/loader.conf and see if that fixes it. If it does not, try other values. (If you have large amounts of memory, you may need to start larger.) You MAY also need to add 'hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1'. These need to be in loader.conf. sysctl.conf will not work as it loads too late in the boot sequence. You also have some major ACPI issues that may be causing the failure. If your system supports APM, try using that, instead. Or, at least boot with ACPI disabled (hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 in /boot/device.hints). If you want to use APM, load the module in /boot/loader.conf and enable it in /boot/device.hints. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Laptop and DHCP
Greetings! I suppose this is a newbie question, but I figured I'd give these lists a shot. I just installed FreeBSD 5.0 on my laptop, and I have a 3COM Megahertz PCMCIA card (Model 3CCE589ET to be exact). I have a cable modem (I'm using DCHP with that) that goes into a Linksys router and 4 port switch (serving up DHCP internally), then into a Linksys hub. All of the other computers on the network can access the internet just fine, and are assigned IPs without a problem. I just can't seem to get this laptop onto the network for some reason. I only have 3 other computers on the network. 2 Linux (Mandrake and Slackware) boxes, and one WinXP Pro box. One of the linux boxes is on the hub with this laptop. Any idea what I need to do to set this up to access the internet? Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to provide! Regards, C.M. Hobbs This e-mail was scanned by RAV Antivirus. (www.ravantivirus.com) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptop and DHCP
On Monday, 29 September 2003 at 14:38:38 -0500, Christopher M. Hobbs wrote: Greetings! I suppose this is a newbie question, but I figured I'd give these lists a shot. I just installed FreeBSD 5.0 on my laptop, and I have a 3COM Megahertz PCMCIA card (Model 3CCE589ET to be exact). I have a cable modem (I'm using DCHP with that) that goes into a Linksys router and 4 port switch (serving up DHCP internally), then into a Linksys hub. All of the other computers on the network can access the internet just fine, and are assigned IPs without a problem. I just can't seem to get this laptop onto the network for some reason. Any idea what I need to do to set this up to access the internet? Well, a good start would be to tell us what you've done so far, and what happened. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. NOTE: Due to the currently active Microsoft-based worms, I am limiting all incoming mail to 131,072 bytes. This is enough for normal mail, but not for large attachments. Please send these as URLs. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
FreeBSD 5.1Release on Compaq Presario Laptop.
Hi, I have just installed FreeBSD 5.1 - Release on my laptop Compaq Presario 2132. Everything's working fine, but I have a couple of doubts. 1. My console does'nt cover the entire screen of my laptop. It only appears in a middle rectangular area of the screen. How do I fix this to cover the entire screen??? Some people directed my to run the 'diagnostics check' in my BIOS. But my BIOS does not have diagnostic checks. Is there another way? 2. Whenever I boot into ACPI enabled mode, I can't configure my mouse to work? Whats the reason for this? How can I work this, i.e. the ACPI and the mouse together? Thanks, Nikhil. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
no APM or X support for IBM A20p laptop in 4.8
I just installed 4.8 from the BSDMall CD on my 3 year old IBM A20p. APM worked in 4.6 but no longer does. FreeBSD's XFree86 never worked (RedHat has always worked just fine). I have a commercial X server that worked fine under 4.6 but was broken by changes to libc in 4.8. Has anyone else gotten FreeBSD 4.8 to work on an A20p? Thanks. -Kip ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: laptop booting issue
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 07:55:10PM -0700, lists wrote: William O'Higgins wrote: I recently installed FreeBSD 4.8 on a ThinkPad 600X. The install seemed to go fine, but when I reboot and I look at the menu, I have two choices - F1 DOS, F2 FreeBSD. There is nothing on the DOS partition, so I want to press F2. There isn't any response however. If I hit F1 it tries to boot the remnants of the previous OS (Win98), but if I hit F2 I get squat. Does this ring any bells for anyone? Or should I just install Windoze first (I have to dual-boot :-( ) and then try again? Any input would be appreciated. Thanks. Hi William, You should install Win98 first, FreeBSD second. Win98 will overwrite the boot manager installed by BSD and you'll have to reinstall ( provided that you're using the boot manager. ). I have setup a bunch of dual boot systems ( various win versions FreeBSD ) and never ran into the problem you are having. Did you do a custom install or the default one? Can you give any further details of what you did during the install? Thanatos ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) If the only problem is with the MBR then it certainly shouldn't be necessary to do a full re-install. You could try to re-run sysinstall by booting from the install floppies and then select Configure-Fdisk and then press 'q' to skip the actual partitioning. You will then be prompted for the type of boot record you want to install. I suppose you would select the Boot Manager. Based on what you said earlier, though, it sounded like you installed FreeBSD second anyway, so things should have worked the first time? Nathan -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys D8527E49 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
laptop booting issue
I recently installed FreeBSD 4.8 on a ThinkPad 600X. The install seemed to go fine, but when I reboot and I look at the menu, I have two choices - F1 DOS, F2 FreeBSD. There is nothing on the DOS partition, so I want to press F2. There isn't any response however. If I hit F1 it tries to boot the remnants of the previous OS (Win98), but if I hit F2 I get squat. Does this ring any bells for anyone? Or should I just install Windoze first (I have to dual-boot :-( ) and then try again? Any input would be appreciated. Thanks. -- yours, William O'Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: laptop booting issue
William O'Higgins wrote: I recently installed FreeBSD 4.8 on a ThinkPad 600X. The install seemed to go fine, but when I reboot and I look at the menu, I have two choices - F1 DOS, F2 FreeBSD. There is nothing on the DOS partition, so I want to press F2. There isn't any response however. If I hit F1 it tries to boot the remnants of the previous OS (Win98), but if I hit F2 I get squat. Does this ring any bells for anyone? Or should I just install Windoze first (I have to dual-boot :-( ) and then try again? Any input would be appreciated. Thanks. Hi William, You should install Win98 first, FreeBSD second. Win98 will overwrite the boot manager installed by BSD and you'll have to reinstall ( provided that you're using the boot manager. ). I have setup a bunch of dual boot systems ( various win versions FreeBSD ) and never ran into the problem you are having. Did you do a custom install or the default one? Can you give any further details of what you did during the install? Thanatos ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Laptop Problems
I recently got a new Asus laptop. I went to place FreeBSD 4.8 on it, but it kept hanging on detecting the HDD. So I tried 5.1 instead which installed fine. I have run into several problems with the hardware. The first is that the 3 Com Gigabit card (from the 3com site it looks like a 3C2000-T) is not being detected. I can not find anything in the kernel config that will help with the detection. So the first question is what can I do so that it can be detected and setup? The second problem has been with trying to get X started. When I started X, all I end up with is a blank screen and no response. Ctl-Alt-Backspace does terminated it, but there is still no display. I am now at a stage of being uncertain where to continue from here since the XFree logs are not as helpful as I had hoped. So does anyone have any good suggestions on what I could try to get either or both to work? Thanks in advance Kim Some information on the PC: (let me know if you need any more information) The kernel is currently a generic one with the radeondrm device compiled in. Output from dmesg - Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Sat Aug 30 09:58:14 CST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/LAPTOP Preloaded elf kernel /boot/kernel/kernel at 0xc06ea000. Preloaded elf module /boot/kernel/acpi.ko at 0xc06ea244. Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz Timecounter TSC frequency 2666778568 Hz CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz (2666.78-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf27 Stepping = 7 Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE real memory = 536846336 (511 MB) avail memory = 513966080 (490 MB) Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled npx0: math processor on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface acpi0: ASUS L5C on motherboard pcibios: BIOS version 2.10 Using $PIR table, 6 entries at 0xc00f1be0 acpi0: power button is handled as a fixed feature programming model. Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0xe408-0xe40b on acpi0 acpi_cpu0: CPU on acpi0 acpi_cpu1: CPU on acpi0 acpi_tz0: thermal zone on acpi0 acpi_acad0: AC adapter on acpi0 acpi_cmbat0: Control method Battery on acpi0 acpi_lid0: Control Method Lid Switch on acpi0 acpi_button0: Power Button on acpi0 acpi_button1: Sleep Button on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 agp0: SiS 648 host to AGP bridge mem 0xe800-0xebff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 drm0: ATI Radeon Lf R250 Mobility 9000 M9 port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem 0xe780-0xe780,0xf000-0xf7ff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1 info: [drm] AGP at 0xe800 64MB info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.8.0 20020828 on minor 0 isab0: PCI-ISA bridge at device 2.0 on pci0 isa0: ISA bus on isab0 fwohci0: vendor=1039, dev=7007 fwohci0: 1394 Open Host Controller Interface mem 0xe700-0xe7000fff irq 11 at device 2.3 on pci0 fwohci0: OHCI version 1.0 (ROM=1) fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channel is 4. fwohci0: EUI64 00:e0:18:00:03:0c:8a:e7 fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 2 ports. fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes. firewire0: IEEE1394(FireWire) bus on fwohci0 if_fwe0: Ethernet over FireWire on firewire0 if_fwe0: Fake Ethernet address: 02:e0:18:0c:8a:e7 sbp0: SBP2/SCSI over firewire on firewire0 fwohci0: Initiate bus reset atapci0: SiS 96X UDMA133 controller port 0xb800-0xb80f at device 2.5 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 pci0: simple comms at device 2.6 (no driver attached) pci0: multimedia, audio at device 2.7 (no driver attached) ohci0: SiS 5571 USB controller mem 0xe680-0xe6800fff irq 5 at device 3.0 on pci0 usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb0: SiS 5571 USB controller on ohci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: SiS OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ohci1: SiS 5571 USB controller mem 0xe600-0xe6000fff irq 5 at device 3.1 on pci0 usb1: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb1: SiS 5571 USB controller on ohci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: SiS OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ohci2: SiS 5571 USB controller mem 0xe580-0xe5800fff irq 5 at device 3.2 on pci0 usb2: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb2: SiS 5571 USB controller on ohci2 usb2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2: SiS OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered pci0: serial bus, USB at device 3.3 (no driver attached) cbb0: PCI-CardBus Bridge irq 11 at device 10.0 on pci0 cardbus0: CardBus bus on cbb0 pccard0: 16-bit PCCard bus on cbb0 cbb1: PCI-CardBus Bridge irq
Problem installing FreeBSD from DVD drive (IBM laptop)
Hi! I tried (many many times) to install Freebsd in my IBM laptop and I had this problem: the laptop doesnt have a floppy drive, it only have one hd and one dvd drive. So, I configured the BIOS to boot from DVD drive, then HD. when I turned the laptop on with the BSD cd rom on it, it started the Free BSD install program. Then, the problem: it didnt recognize that the DVD rive was d: and tried to guess wich device to install from. It couldnt guess the right device, so, it tried to start installation from default disk0, wich was (by mistake) recognized as A:. I tried many different BIOs settings, but nothing changed. One thing that I noticed is that Windows also thinks taht my laptop have a A: drive (it appears on windows GUI). My laptop is a IBM 600E, with PII processor, 128MB RAM and 6.4GB HD. I does have a special IBM exclusive BIOS, and also smething like Doctor DOS (it showed up when I tried to install WinME in the empty HD). So, I'm stuck with this now... Its really bad, because I bought the laptop 1 week ago only to use FreeBSD (I had to instal Windows so it's easier to use the University network). I hope you guys can help me, I head good things about you! Thanks in asvance, and sorry for my bad English. Daniel 'Metalman ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCM on my laptop is broken
Chipp Zanuff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have problem with my laptop;it freezes/crashes on BOOT when I compile device pcm into the kernel. I tried loading snd_pcm, but nothign happens. kldstat shows snd_pcm, but no entries in /dev also, there aren;t any messages in /var/logs/messages when i kldload the sound module. i tried inserting snd_neomagic_load=YES into loader.conf but that only nets the same result as if i compiled device pcm in the kernel. yes, sound does exist. it is a neomagic sound chip. 256AV. sound detection is where it freezes at in the broken kernel. I read the sound documetation, (no help), posted the problem on a few forums (no help). Maybe someone here is better? Sounds like you're running 5.x. If so, the -CURRENT list is the place to go. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ed1 network problems on laptop
I've got a Sony VAIO PCG-FX101 (vanilla Celeron 600 laptop). It's run FreeBSD without a problem before. I just installed a new hard drive and installed 4.8-RELEASE on it. Now, I'm having all kinds of network problems that I didn't have a few days ago with the exact same hardware/OS (except the hard drive). I'm using a SMC PC-Card NIC (comes up as ed1). When I try to cvsup my source tree or ports, I get a message like this: TreeList failed: Network write failure: Connection closed That's not the only error I've seen while cvsupping, but the only one I've seen today. It happens every time I try to cvsup. When FTPing anything, the connection hangs mid-session (unless it's a small up/download). I've been able to install some ports, but usually they hang on the FTP download. When SSHing to other hosts, I can go merrily along, but within five or ten minutes, I lose the connection. SOME SUCCESS I was able to successfully cvsup my source tree and ports tree AND portinstall XFree86-4 and xcfe4 (big downloads, LOTS of dependencies). The way it worked was this: I'd tried and tried to cvsup without luck. I left the machine on and went to the office. FROM MY OFFICE FREEBSD MACHINE, I was able to log into my home machine, su to root, flawlessly cvsup and portinstall a bunch of things. I thought my problems were somehow solved -- WRONG. When I try doing any of those things from the machine itself, I can't. Since I was able to cvsup remotely, I've rebuilt my whole system (world and kernel) to 4.8-STABLE. SOME TRIAL-AND-ERROR I've done web searches on the error string above and found people with the same problem (apparently), but no definitive solution. I've made sure that there's no IRQ conflict with the NIC (it shared IRQ 3 with the sio1, which I've commented out of the kernel and rebuilt). I've also made sure the laptop's BIOS is set for a non-PNP OS. I had 4.8-STABLE running on this machine a few days ago (on a too-small hard drive) without a hitch. No network glitches at all. Argh. Any clues?? I don't wanrt to re-install from scratch -- and doubt it would do any good! -- Michael A. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmer at Large ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PCM on my laptop is broken
Hi, I have problem with my laptop;it freezes/crashes on BOOT when I compile device pcm into the kernel. I tried loading snd_pcm, but nothign happens. kldstat shows snd_pcm, but no entries in /dev also, there aren;t any messages in /var/logs/messages when i kldload the sound module. i tried inserting snd_neomagic_load=YES into loader.conf but that only nets the same result as if i compiled device pcm in the kernel. yes, sound does exist. it is a neomagic sound chip. 256AV. sound detection is where it freezes at in the broken kernel. I read the sound documetation, (no help), posted the problem on a few forums (no help). Maybe someone here is better? Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New laptop install via wireless just isn't working
Noone's installed FreeBSD on a laptop via a PCMCIA wlan card? At this point, I'd even settle for it's possible, but not on *your* hardware. -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Sound under laptop
I'm completely puzzled about soundcards under freebsd, i have read the respective chapter in the handbook but i dont found a good relation with my laptop (compaq 725) soundacard that's: 16-Bit Sound Blaster CompatibleJBL Proi Audio System c/ Bass Reflex # kldload snd # cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm) Installed devices: # SO, all i have to do is add devime pcm in the kernel, and when i re-compile it, the sound will be working ?! Thanks! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
New laptop install via wireless just isn't working
I was given a little 486 laptop. I bought a Microsoft MN-520 PCMCIA wlan card and verified that it works perfectly under Linux on that laptop. I'm trying to replace Linux with FreeBSD on that machine, but I can't get sysinstall to recognize the NIC. To date, I've gone as far as patching the pccarddevs files to add device IDs for the card, and using that patch to compile my own custom release and boot floppies with the new-and-improved driver. None of this has worked. During the boot process, I'm asked if I want to use the PCMCIA card as installation media. I say yes and enter the memory ranges and IRQs that Linux had detected for the card. sysinstall continues to the main menu, and I launch a holographic shell. At this point, should thewi0 network interface be visible? For me, it's not. Do I have to run something else, or is this an indication that the system still isn't recognizing the card? Any wild theories would be appreciated. I really want to make this little laptop work, but I've spent way too much time on it already and have run out of ideas. Thanks, -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: VMWare and FreeBSD 4.8 on my laptop
Peter Nugter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am sorry if this is the wrong mail address but - as a newbe - I have a question. I installed on my laptop (using Windows XP; SP 1) VMWare 4 which runs O.K. I installed a virtual machine (VMWare 4) and was able to install FreeBSD 4.8 as a guest on it. Although the configuration of XFree86 (which is not cooperating well with the ATI Radeon IGP 340M) was a hell of a job - for an unexpierenced FreeBSD user - FreeBSD 4.8 runs well now. But now I want to connect my FreeBSD virtual machine to the internet. I did understand from the VMWare manual that a NAT device allows me to connect FreeBSD through my host-laptop to my provider. VMWare uses than a so called VMnet 8 switch. My provider gives me a different IP each time when dialing. But when starting Konqurer: I only get the message host not found (of course I already have a connection by way of my XP-host!). I must confess - as I have little knowledge of advanced networking - that I do not have the slightest idea what to do. Is it just the right configuration inside VMWare or do I have to configure some files inside FreeBSD? Probably both. You need to get the NAT running on the VMWare machine and configure the FreeBSD machine to use the VMWare machine as its gateway. You'll need to configure DNS for the FreeBSD host, as well. Another question: The VMware handbook (page 193) suggests that one also can make an internet connection by using a host-only network and let Windows do the job by using the Internet Connection Sharing Wizard. But it does not work. Windows tells me that something during the installation went wrong. That's all it tells you? Something went wrong? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
VMWare and FreeBSD 4.8 on my laptop
I am sorry if this is the wrong mail address but - as a newbe - I have a question. I installed on my laptop (using Windows XP; SP 1) VMWare 4 which runs O.K. I installed a virtual machine (VMWare 4) and was able to install FreeBSD 4.8 as a guest on it. Although the configuration of XFree86 (which is not cooperating well with the ATI Radeon IGP 340M) was a hell of a job - for an unexpierenced FreeBSD user - FreeBSD 4.8 runs well now. But now I want to connect my FreeBSD virtual machine to the internet. I did understand from the VMWare manual that a NAT device allows me to connect FreeBSD through my host-laptop to my provider. VMWare uses than a so called VMnet 8 switch. My provider gives me a different IP each time when dialing. But when starting Konqurer: I only get the message host not found (of course I already have a connection by way of my XP-host!). I must confess - as I have little knowledge of advanced networking - that I do not have the slightest idea what to do. Is it just the right configuration inside VMWare or do I have to configure some files inside FreeBSD? Another question: The VMware handbook (page 193) suggests that one also can make an internet connection by using a host-only network and let Windows do the job by using the Internet Connection Sharing Wizard. But it does not work. Windows tells me that something during the installation went wrong. Has someone any experience with these matters? Thank you very much for helping me!!! Sincerely yours, Peter Nugter. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fwd: Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?
Hello Have you tried to using the XF86Config file from your Linux computer? You will need to disable the dri stuff, make sure all the font paths are the same. On Sunday 27 July 2003 08:39 pm, Karl Agee wrote: Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:15:57 -0700 To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Karl Agee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group? Hi Greg and all: Laptop: Thinkpad iSeries 1300 Video: Silicon Motion LynxEM+ chip Screen: 800x600 hpa system: FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE Only the vga driver works, and not very well. Gives me only a 640x480 display and the windows etc are not displayed properly (too large for the display). This setup was configured using either xf86config or xf86cfg -textmode. Using the autodetect selection froze the display, as does trying to setup manually using the above and the silicon motion driver. Killing X server doesnt work, have to reboot the machine. This notebook works fine with suse 8.1, Red Hat 9, Knoppix 3.1, etc. I did notice the XF86Config file is the old XFree 3.x series format, apparently not the newer series 4.x format. (dont know if that is significant). --karl At 11:10 AM 7/27/2003 +0930, you wrote: On Thursday, 24 July 2003 at 21:47:23 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: I am having problems getting X set up properly on a laptop. Should I post the question here or on the mobile list? Start here, but give some details. If this is a Dell Inspiron 5100, I'm working on it. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New Laptop
Thanjee Neefam wrote: I am considering buying a new laptop (my current one is a Dell Inspiron PII-233 without a CD Drive (it broke :( )) I just simply want to know if there is a particluar range of laptops that work better with FreeBSD. ie: they use totally standard quality hardware, no panic on installs, also good value for money. I have had all good experiences with my Dell Inspiron regarding FreeBSD, but the time has come to improve my hardware. Cheers :) /// [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\\ AAFE Audio, Amiga and FreeBSD Enthusiast :p \ http://www.fastmail.fm // Ive been using a Dell Latitude C840 for 6 or so months now, and Ive had very little if any problems with it. Onboard nic works great, PCMCIA is no problem, sound and graphics in X worked on first try, even the dockingstation and its extra connections works great under FreeBSD. The only thing I havent tried is the onboard modem. It might work, I just never tried since I havent had any use for it. The Latitude is one of Dell's top modells, so you could easily find a cheaper laptop. However, if you dont mind paying a few extra bucks, its worth it. -- R ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New Laptop
I am considering buying a new laptop (my current one is a Dell Inspiron PII-233 without a CD Drive (it broke :( )) I just simply want to know if there is a particluar range of laptops that work better with FreeBSD. ie: they use totally standard quality hardware, no panic on installs, also good value for money. please take a look at the freebsd-mobile list archive. There are several threads regarding laptop hardware. In addition, this thread from openbsd-misc may help you. It reveals some interesting viewpoints regarding service for laptops. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=10588419723r=1w=2 -volker ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:15:57 -0700 To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Karl Agee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group? Hi Greg and all: Laptop: Thinkpad iSeries 1300 Video: Silicon Motion LynxEM+ chip Screen: 800x600 hpa system: FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE Only the vga driver works, and not very well. Gives me only a 640x480 display and the windows etc are not displayed properly (too large for the display). This setup was configured using either xf86config or xf86cfg -textmode. Using the autodetect selection froze the display, as does trying to setup manually using the above and the silicon motion driver. Killing X server doesnt work, have to reboot the machine. This notebook works fine with suse 8.1, Red Hat 9, Knoppix 3.1, etc. I did notice the XF86Config file is the old XFree 3.x series format, apparently not the newer series 4.x format. (dont know if that is significant). --karl At 11:10 AM 7/27/2003 +0930, you wrote: On Thursday, 24 July 2003 at 21:47:23 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: I am having problems getting X set up properly on a laptop. Should I post the question here or on the mobile list? Start here, but give some details. If this is a Dell Inspiron 5100, I'm working on it. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?
On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 19:15:57 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: At 11:10 AM 7/27/2003 +0930, you wrote: On Thursday, 24 July 2003 at 21:47:23 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: I am having problems getting X set up properly on a laptop. Should I post the question here or on the mobile list? Start here, but give some details. If this is a Dell Inspiron 5100, I'm working on it. Hi Greg and all: You forgot to copy and all. I'm doing it now. Laptop: Thinkpad iSeries 1300 Video: Silicon Motion LynxEM+ chip Screen: 800x600 hpa system: FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE Only the vga driver works, and not very well. Gives me only a 640x480 display and the windows etc are not displayed properly (too large for the display). That's a window manager issue. This setup was configured using either xf86config or xf86cfg -textmode. Using the autodetect selection froze the display, as does trying to setup manually using the above and the silicon motion driver. Killing X server doesnt work, have to reboot the machine. Hmm. Anything unusual in /var/log/XFree86.0.log? I had this recently: (==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xc,0x4) was already clear (WW) RADEON(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum (II) RADEON(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000 (==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0x0,0x1000) was already clear (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: ATI Radeon Mobility M7 LW (AGP) (ChipID = 0x4c57) (--) RADEON(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xf000 (--) RADEON(0): MMIO registers at 0xe010 (==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xe010,0x8) was already clear (--) RADEON(0): VideoRAM: 16384 kByte (64-bit DDR SDRAM) (==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xe010,0x8) was already clear (II) RADEON(0): CloneDisplay option not set -- defaulting to auto-detect (II) RADEON(0): Primary Display == Type 2 (II) RADEON(0): Panel ID string: (II) RADEON(0): Panel Size from BIOS: 65535x65535 *** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not *** be the reason for the server aborting. Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting This was on a Dell Inspiron 5100, and it's caused by incorrect mapping of the video BIOS. It would be interesting to see if you're having a similar problem. This notebook works fine with suse 8.1, Red Hat 9, Knoppix 3.1, etc. I also tried my laptop with Knoppix 3.1, and it worked fine. It's obviously a FreeBSD problem, and I'm currently trying to localize it. I did notice the XF86Config file is the old XFree 3.x series format, apparently not the newer series 4.x format. (dont know if that is significant). Depends on where it came from. The log file is more interesting, and it'll tell you which of the myriad possible config files it uses. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?
At 12:53 PM 7/28/2003 +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 19:15:57 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: At 11:10 AM 7/27/2003 +0930, you wrote: On Thursday, 24 July 2003 at 21:47:23 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: I am having problems getting X set up properly on a laptop. Should I post the question here or on the mobile list? Start here, but give some details. If this is a Dell Inspiron 5100, I'm working on it. Hi Greg and all: You forgot to copy and all. I'm doing it now. Laptop: Thinkpad iSeries 1300 Video: Silicon Motion LynxEM+ chip Screen: 800x600 hpa system: FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE Only the vga driver works, and not very well. Gives me only a 640x480 display and the windows etc are not displayed properly (too large for the display). That's a window manager issue. Well, both twm and windowmaker do it.havent tried kde, gnome. This setup was configured using either xf86config or xf86cfg -textmode. Using the autodetect selection froze the display, as does trying to setup manually using the above and the silicon motion driver. Killing X server doesnt work, have to reboot the machine. Hmm. Anything unusual in /var/log/XFree86.0.log? I had this recently: (==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xc,0x4) was already clear (WW) RADEON(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum (II) RADEON(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000 (==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0x0,0x1000) was already clear (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: ATI Radeon Mobility M7 LW (AGP) (ChipID = 0x4c57) (--) RADEON(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xf000 (--) RADEON(0): MMIO registers at 0xe010 (==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xe010,0x8) was already clear (--) RADEON(0): VideoRAM: 16384 kByte (64-bit DDR SDRAM) (==) RADEON(0): Write-combining range (0xe010,0x8) was already clear (II) RADEON(0): CloneDisplay option not set -- defaulting to auto-detect (II) RADEON(0): Primary Display == Type 2 (II) RADEON(0): Panel ID string: (II) RADEON(0): Panel Size from BIOS: 65535x65535 *** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not *** be the reason for the server aborting. Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting This was on a Dell Inspiron 5100, and it's caused by incorrect mapping of the video BIOS. It would be interesting to see if you're having a similar problem. well, I dont see anything like that, but, now it is crashing with the same message. But, it says: (II) Silicon Motion(0): U2C device I2C bus:SAA 7111A registered at address 0x48. (II) Silicon Motion(0): U2C device I2C bus:SAA 7111A removed. ***If unresolved symbols were reported above..(wont repeat it you know what the rest is I am sure) Fatal Server Error: Caught Signal 11 Server Aborting. that is where it crashes. --karl This notebook works fine with suse 8.1, Red Hat 9, Knoppix 3.1, etc. I also tried my laptop with Knoppix 3.1, and it worked fine. It's obviously a FreeBSD problem, and I'm currently trying to localize it. I did notice the XF86Config file is the old XFree 3.x series format, apparently not the newer series 4.x format. (dont know if that is significant). Depends on where it came from. The log file is more interesting, and it'll tell you which of the myriad possible config files it uses. Greg -- Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
more Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?
Ok, I just made a change to the monitor setting.and it froze up like before. Here is the log message: (II) Silicon Motion(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000 (II) Silicon Motion(0): Write-combining range (0x0, 0x1000) was already clear (II) Silicon Motion(0): Current Mode 0x00 (II) Silicon Motion(0): SMI_GEReset called from smi_driver.c line 1559 (II) Silicon Motion(0): SMI_GEReset called from smi_driver.c line 263 #above line repeated many times --karl ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Quoted text inappropriately wrapped. On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 20:49:55 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: At 12:53 PM 7/28/2003 +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 19:15:57 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: At 11:10 AM 7/27/2003 +0930, you wrote: On Thursday, 24 July 2003 at 21:47:23 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: Laptop: Thinkpad iSeries 1300 Video: Silicon Motion LynxEM+ chip Screen: 800x600 hpa system: FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE Only the vga driver works, and not very well. Gives me only a 640x480 display and the windows etc are not displayed properly (too large for the display). That's a window manager issue. Well, both twm and windowmaker do it.havent tried kde, gnome. They'll do it too. Nobody expects a 640x480 maximum resolution. This setup was configured using either xf86config or xf86cfg -textmode. Using the autodetect selection froze the display, as does trying to setup manually using the above and the silicon motion driver. Killing X server doesnt work, have to reboot the machine. Hmm. Anything unusual in /var/log/XFree86.0.log? I had this recently: ... This was on a Dell Inspiron 5100, and it's caused by incorrect mapping of the video BIOS. It would be interesting to see if you're having a similar problem. well, I dont see anything like that, but, now it is crashing with the same message. But, it says: (II) Silicon Motion(0): U2C device I2C bus:SAA 7111A registered at address 0x48. (II) Silicon Motion(0): U2C device I2C bus:SAA 7111A removed. It looks as if you have trimmed too much. Look for lines starting with (WW) and (EE). ***If unresolved symbols were reported above..(wont repeat it you know what the rest is I am sure) Fatal Server Error: Caught Signal 11 Server Aborting. that is where it crashes. OK, so this looks similar. Take a look in /var/run/dmesg.boot and find a line starting with orm0. I'd be interested to see what it looks like. Also check for any warnings about checksum mismatches in the dmesg.boot. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: more Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Computer output wrapped. On Sunday, 27 July 2003 at 21:06:04 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: Ok, I just made a change to the monitor setting.and it froze up like before. Here is the log message: (II) Silicon Motion(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000 (II) Silicon Motion(0): Write-combining range (0x0, 0x1000) was already clear (II) Silicon Motion(0): Current Mode 0x00 (II) Silicon Motion(0): SMI_GEReset called from smi_driver.c line 1559 (II) Silicon Motion(0): SMI_GEReset called from smi_driver.c line 263 #above line repeated many times There's nothing interesting there. See my other message. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?
Karl Agee snipped: (II) Silicon Motion(0): U2C device I2C bus:SAA 7111A registered at address 0x48. (II) Silicon Motion(0): U2C device I2C bus:SAA 7111A removed. It looks as if you have trimmed too much. Look for lines starting with (WW) and (EE). (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log File. (==) Using config file.. that is all it says. ***If unresolved symbols were reported above..(wont repeat it you know what the rest is I am sure) Fatal Server Error: Caught Signal 11 Server Aborting. that is where it crashes. OK, so this looks similar. Take a look in /var/run/dmesg.boot and find a line starting with orm0. I'd be interested to see what it looks like. orm0: Option ROM at iomem 0xc-0xcbfff on isa0 Also check for any warnings about checksum mismatches in the dmesg.boot. Nope. no checksum errers. --karl ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
New Laptop
I am considering buying a new laptop (my current one is a Dell Inspiron PII-233 without a CD Drive (it broke :( )) I just simply want to know if there is a particluar range of laptops that work better with FreeBSD. ie: they use totally standard quality hardware, no panic on installs, also good value for money. I have had all good experiences with my Dell Inspiron regarding FreeBSD, but the time has come to improve my hardware. Cheers :) /// [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\\ AAFE Audio, Amiga and FreeBSD Enthusiast :p \ http://www.fastmail.fm // ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New Laptop
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Long/short syndrome. On Saturday, 26 July 2003 at 15:13:41 -0800, Thanjee Neefam wrote: I am considering buying a new laptop (my current one is a Dell Inspiron PII-233 without a CD Drive (it broke :( )) I just simply want to know if there is a particluar range of laptops that work better with FreeBSD. ie: they use totally standard quality hardware, no panic on installs, also good value for money. I have had all good experiences with my Dell Inspiron regarding FreeBSD, but the time has come to improve my hardware. I have also had a number of Dell laptops and have been relatively satisfied, so when the time came to buy a new one, I bought an Inspiron 5100. I have just got it (3 days ago), and I've spent all the intervening time trying to set it up. Problems include: - The onboard Ethernet chip (Broadcomm 4400) isn't supported. A driver is under development, but the current version is very flaky. - Out of the box, the system will freeze up if you put in any PCMCIA card. You can fix this one with the following entry in your /boot/loader.conf: hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1 This problem also affects the Inspiron 5150. - I can't get X to start. This problem does not affect the Inspiron 5150. It appears to be a problem mapping the video BIOS, and I'm currently working on it. - It's missing a lot of the legacy connectors, like serial and parallel ports and a PS/2 keyboard connector. This means that if I want to use an external mouse or keyboard, I have to buy a USB one, and I can't do remote kernel debugging with it. It also has no floppy, which is only a problem if you can't get the network to work :-) On the plus side, the price is good, and it has firewire as well as USB. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: laptop question for this or the mobile group?
On Thursday, 24 July 2003 at 21:47:23 -0700, Karl Agee wrote: I am having problems getting X set up properly on a laptop. Should I post the question here or on the mobile list? Start here, but give some details. If this is a Dell Inspiron 5100, I'm working on it. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Laptop keyboard maps wrong keys during install
I'm attempting to install 4.8 on an old IBM 340CSE laptop. I'm running into a roadblock, though: although the keyboard works fine all the way through the kernel configuration part at the beginning (moving around with arrow keys, deleting modules, saving, etc.), the keymap seems to get corrupted as soon as I get to the main menu. That is, most keys don't work at all. I *think* that pressing J actually gets Enter. K gets X (I think). No keycode seems to correspond to the key actually being pressed. Again, the keyboard works perfectly *before* getting to the main menu, and I've had Linux installed and running on it with no apparent idiosyncracies before. Any ideas of what might be going wrong? -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
laptop question for this or the mobile group?
I am having problems getting X set up properly on a laptop. Should I post the question here or on the mobile list? --karl ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dell Laptop Monitor
Dear All I have an inspiron 2650 from dell. I install FreeBSD 5.0 on , and it works. But when i start KDE the main monitor screen start to scramble and like a signal on scope ;) but my external monitor works properlly. Does any one know what can i do to my setting to make it work. Thanx Soheil Hassas Yeganeh _ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Swap usage locks up my laptop.
Whenever I start up gnome I'm getting panics and reboots, until I got wise and ran ``swapoff'' and started up gnome. No panics. How can I check my swap parition in FreeBSD. I've used fsck and badblocks on ext2 in Linux, but how do I check my FreeBSD swap? -- mycr0ft ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Failed to install FreeBSD on Gericom Overdose laptop (Kernel Panic#12)
Hello! I know the problem (many references in various groups), but WAS IT SOLVED SOMEHOW? To remind the trouble - trying to install FreeBSD 5.0, 5.1 and even 4.5 causes a kernel panic (#12) after detecting PCMCIA host adapter. I do not attach messages, as they are exactly the same as those on Internet (e.g. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=47295). * I tried with and without PCMCIA card plugged in, * I tried with and without APM * I tried with and without PnP OS setting * I tried tricks with PCI steering in hints * I tried blocking PCMCIA interface in hints * I gave up I guess it has something to do with either mobile processor (kernel faults regarding memory access) or PcCard interface. It seems not to depend on chipset (problems with at least Intel and SiS chipsets). Did anyone see any solution to this problem, or must I stick to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux (still smaller and faster than Windows, anyway) on my laptop? Sorry for rolling the problem overover, but it is frustrating me. Best regards, Pawel Kraszewski smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: laptop install problem - usb cd drive
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 08:04:15PM -0400, William O'Higgins wrote: The Challenge: An old laptop, with no OS that can only boot from a floppy. I want to install FreeBSD. I have a USB CDROM, but I cannot make it bootable at the BIOS level. I have a network card (PCMCIA) but no knowledge of how to get drivers for it on a FreeBSD install floppy. I'm pretty sure I'll have to either install entirely from floppies (not worth the time) or from the CDROM or network, but I don't know how to make those devices work from a blank hd and a floppy. Couldn't you install with the two floppys, then download the rest via ppp or pppoe? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
laptop install problem - usb cd drive
The Challenge: An old laptop, with no OS that can only boot from a floppy. I want to install FreeBSD. I have a USB CDROM, but I cannot make it bootable at the BIOS level. I have a network card (PCMCIA) but no knowledge of how to get drivers for it on a FreeBSD install floppy. I'm pretty sure I'll have to either install entirely from floppies (not worth the time) or from the CDROM or network, but I don't know how to make those devices work from a blank hd and a floppy. Any pointers? Thanks. -- yours, William ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using kevent to catch laptop disk I/O culprit?
I'm working on keeping my laptop disk spun down and am using the process of elimination to figure out who's always spinning up the disk. So far, I've put /tmp on an mfs, and I just installed Robert Sexton's hw.ata.suspend patch from the freebsd-mobile archives. I'm slowly killing off and/or fine tuning various daemons to see if they're responsible for all of the IO, and it occured to me that the kevent/kqueue stuff might be a great way to actually see who's writing what, when. Has anyone written the necessary parts to get this kind of a simple filesystem trace? g. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
laptop hard drive spin-down APM stuff - controllable??
Anyone who's using FreeBSD with a laptop: I'm having problems with my hard drive spinning down (sleeping) every 30 seconds. Is that something that's controllable in FreeBSD? I don't see it in BIOS. Is it a kernel thing? This thing sleeps and wakes, sleeps and wakes about every 15 seconds. Everything else is fine and it doesn't do it when I boot into Windows. Thanks for any help! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem on installing BSD 5.x on laptop ...
Hello, I have a 3CCFEM556BI pccard connected on my laptop. However, I don't manage to get the device working during the install of FreeBSD 5.0 and 5.1. Actually the pcmcia driver work fine as it recognized my APA 1480A cardbus. During the boot there is a message ep0: eeprom failed to come ready. When I switch on the second console during the installation, I have a message ep0: No I/O space?! How could I get my 3CCFEM556BI work during the install process of FreeBSD ? Friendly Damien Touraine ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dead keys on Toshiba laptop - 4.8-STABLE - XFree 4.3
Hello, I've recently installed FreeBSD on my laptop, fetched the kernel sources to upgrade from 4.8-RELEASE to 4.8-STABLE, and now i'm trying to make these dead-keys working under XFree :) Well, it doesn't work at all. 8 bits caracters are perfectly supported by the terminal (aterm), since i can see them if i switch to a french keyboard mapping. Usually i use a dvorak keyboard mapping. Although i've used xmodmap to set up Mode_switch or Multi_key keys, i still can't get dead-keys working. Here is my XF86Config file: Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver keyboard option xkbRules xfree86 Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout dvorak Option XkbOptions ctrl:swapcaps EndSection For example, i've checked the keycode of the right alt key with xev, and bound it to Multi_key, but without any success. Or bounding a 'dead_grave dead_circumflex' to another key didn't work either. That's weird, it's the first time i can't make these dead-keys working. Could it be a laptop issue? (Toshiba Satellite 3000). Thanks in advance, Florian Ponroy. -- L'amour... Il y a ceux qui en parlent et ceux qui le font. A partir de quoi il m'apparait urgent de me taire. Pierre Desproges ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dead keys on Toshiba laptop - 4.8-STABLE - XFree 4.3
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 04:57:47PM +, Florian Ponroy wrote: Hello, I've recently installed FreeBSD on my laptop, fetched the kernel sources to upgrade from 4.8-RELEASE to 4.8-STABLE, and now i'm trying to make these dead-keys working under XFree :) Well, it doesn't work at all. 8 bits caracters are perfectly supported by the terminal (aterm), since i can see them if i switch to a french keyboard mapping. Usually i use a dvorak keyboard mapping. Ok, i've found it. It's my Aterm which is sucky. Gotta recompile it! At least, the 4.8 packaged version doesn't handle dead keys. Sorry folks, i didn't search enough :) Florian. -- L'amour... Il y a ceux qui en parlent et ceux qui le font. A partir de quoi il m'apparait urgent de me taire. Pierre Desproges ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to configure Wireless access with WEP on a laptop AND use DHCPin/etc/rc.conf
I've discovered the wonderful world of wireless Internet access on my FreeBSD laptop (an IBM Thinkpad 380XD running 4.8-STABLE), but I have a problem. Configuring the interface to do both DHCP and initialize with all the WEP parameters seems to be mutually exclusive. I've worked around it by putting in a dummy static IP and netmask and then running dhclient wi0 manually, but I'd prefer to automate things somewhat so that when wi0 comes up (I put the PC Card in) it initializes with the WEP stuff AND does DHCP. So, currently, my configuration line looks like: ifconfig_wi0=inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid some-ssid wepmode on wepkey some-128-bit-key And it works fine, provided I run dhclient manually. But I can't just replace the dummies with DHCP (been there, it doesn't work). How should I do this? jmc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to configure Wireless access with WEP on a laptop AND use DHCPin/etc/rc.conf
John Merryweather Cooper said: [- snip -] So, currently, my configuration line looks like: ifconfig_wi0=inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid some-ssid wepmode on wepkey some-128-bit-key put the ifconfig wi0 ssid some-ssid wepmode on wepkey some-128-bit-key command into /etc/start_if.wi0 And it works fine, provided I run dhclient manually. But I can't just replace the dummies with DHCP (been there, it doesn't work). and then in /etc/rc.conf, you can go back to ifconfig_wi0=dhcp How should I do this? jmc -Christian -- Van Buren: He probably thought a 9mm divorce would be cheaper Briscoe: ..And less bloody -Law Order: Season 9 _Formerly Famous_ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installing FreeBSD on Laptop
I have a Midwest Micro Elite Soundbook laptop that I would like to install FreeBSD on. The box is a Pentium 75, with 40MB of RAM and a 2GB hard drive so it should be doable. I started out to try an load from an ftp site using the 3COM 3C589D PCMCIA card but was unable to figure out how to get FreeBSD to recognize the card. I have a BackPack CD-ROM drive (parallel port connection) that I use with the laptop, but I was unable to find any information on whether or not I could get it to work to install FreeBSD. I created the boot floppies and was able to get the install shell going but without any access to the install files I was at a loss how to proceed. I guess if I really wanted to I could try a floppy install, but I was hoping for something a little quicker. At home I have a cable modem and a linksys NAT box providing internet access so ftp does not sound like a bad way to go, but I wasn't able to figure out how to get the system to recognize the PCMCIA card. If there is a way to use the BP CD-ROM that would be even better, but again I couldn't find any reference to backpack's or even parallel drives so that has not been a fruitful avenue to look down. I am still kind of new to FreeBSD and UNIX, but I am trying to learn. I thought that installing FreeBSD on my old laptop would be a way to keep it somewhat useful if only for web-surfing and/ or playing around with some scripting work I would like to try to do. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated. TIA Dean M. Gunther Q-Agent Lucent LWS [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing FreeBSD on Laptop
I assume you tried to configure the kernel before running the install program. Assuming the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html or the hardware notes: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.8R/hardware-i386.html Do not cover your hardware, I would ask the hardware question to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and/or [EMAIL PROTECTED] There may be a driver that will recognize your CDROM. On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Gunther, Dean (Dean) wrote: I have a Midwest Micro Elite Soundbook laptop that I would like to install FreeBSD on. The box is a Pentium 75, with 40MB of RAM and a 2GB hard drive so it should be doable. I started out to try an load from an ftp site using the 3COM 3C589D PCMCIA card but was unable to figure out how to get FreeBSD to recognize the card. I have a BackPack CD-ROM drive (parallel port connection) that I use with the laptop, but I was unable to find any information on whether or not I could get it to work to install FreeBSD. I created the boot floppies and was able to get the install shell going but without any access to the install files I was at a loss how to proceed. I guess if I really wanted to I could try a floppy install, but I was hoping for something a little quicker. At home I have a cable modem and a linksys NAT box providing internet access so ftp does not sound like a bad way to go, but I wasn't able to figure out how to get the system to recognize the PCMCIA card. If there is a way to use the BP CD-ROM that would be even better, but again I couldn't find any reference to backpack's or even parallel drives so that has not been a fruitful avenue to look down. I am still kind of new to FreeBSD and UNIX, but I am trying to learn. I thought that installing FreeBSD on my old laptop would be a way to keep it somewhat useful if only for web-surfing and/ or playing around with some scripting work I would like to try to do. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated. TIA Dean M. Gunther Q-Agent Lucent LWS [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing FreeBSD on Laptop
Gunther, Dean (Dean) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a Midwest Micro Elite Soundbook laptop that I would like to install FreeBSD on. The box is a Pentium 75, with 40MB of RAM and a 2GB hard drive so it should be doable. I started out to try an load from an ftp site using the 3COM 3C589D PCMCIA card but was unable to figure out how to get FreeBSD to recognize the card. I have a BackPack CD-ROM drive (parallel port connection) that I use with the laptop, but I was unable to find any information on whether or not I could get it to work to install FreeBSD. Are you installing FreeBSD 4.8? [If not, try it; that's the latest release, and the hardware notes say that it supports that card.] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptop, monitor battery without X.
# / 2003-05-26 10:57:50 +0300: From: Cristian Salan @organizer.ro ^^^ fix your From: address! -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message.see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
laptop output
Hello! I have a laptop fujitsu-siemens, with ati rage mobility video card, and i have this kind of problem: in text mode i see only half of screen, i mean it's like a 50% zoom out. I don't know how to make to see full screen. Thank tou! --- Iulian Dumbrava ROMTELECOM. OM Network. IN National Management Center -- Phone: 021.203.24.11 Mobile: 0722.467.001 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Novice has psm0 problems on a laptop
I have a Compaq Presario 1220 laptop (Cyrix 200Mhz - woot!), and I can't seem to get the touchpad to work. I've read the laptop/mobile computing info, searched the mailing list, and gone to a couple of linux laptop sites - and from what I gather, there is really nothing special about a touchpad - it should just work as a psm0 device. I've tried installing 4.7 -RELEASE and 5.0-RELEASE thinking that perhaps that would make a difference - but it didn't. In 4.7 (which is currently running) psm0 isn't detected or at least isn't listed on dmesg (same thing?). When I did the preliminary configuration, I made sure that psm0 was enabled/listed. I found another post where someone was having problems with their touchpad - I tried moused -p /dev/psm0 -t auto Moused: unable to open /dev/psm0: device not configured. So, I'm thinking that perhaps my next step is to force psm0 to be configured? Am I screwed if it isn't detected at boot - any way to fix that? There is also an external port that has a mouse/keyboard picture - I've tried plugging in an external ps/2 mouse, and it doesn't seem to work either. All of my mouse testing has been done by running /stand/sysinstall - mouse configuration The most aggravating thing is that I was able to run /stand/sysinstall at one point, and I had it working! However, I have now tried all the mouse configuration options under post installation configuration, and none of them have worked. At various points I've been able to get X running, but to really make the laptop usable, I need a mouse - my last resort is going to be to try a serial mouse, but I don't have one handy. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. dbk David Knapp Network Analyst, Cal Poly, SLO [EMAIL PROTECTED] 805.748.4650 Knowing the path is not the same thing as walking the path --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.467 / Virus Database: 266 - Release Date: 4/1/2003 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Novice has psm0 problems on a laptop - update
I've done a boot -v - psm0 says: psm0: current command byte:0047 psm0: failed to reset the aux device I'm using a Synaptics PS/2 TouchPad Is there a patch to make this work? Is it possible to manually reset the aux device? I have a Compaq Presario 1220 laptop (Cyrix 200Mhz - woot!), and I can't seem to get the touchpad to work. I've read the laptop/mobile computing info, searched the mailing list, and gone to a couple of linux laptop sites - and from what I gather, there is really nothing special about a touchpad - it should just work as a psm0 device. I've tried installing 4.7 -RELEASE and 5.0-RELEASE thinking that perhaps that would make a difference - but it didn't. In 4.7 (which is currently running) psm0 isn't detected or at least isn't listed on dmesg (same thing?). When I did the preliminary configuration, I made sure that psm0 was enabled/listed. I found another post where someone was having problems with their touchpad - I tried moused -p /dev/psm0 -t auto Moused: unable to open /dev/psm0: device not configured. So, I'm thinking that perhaps my next step is to force psm0 to be configured? Am I screwed if it isn't detected at boot - any way to fix that? There is also an external port that has a mouse/keyboard picture - I've tried plugging in an external ps/2 mouse, and it doesn't seem to work either. All of my mouse testing has been done by running /stand/sysinstall - mouse configuration The most aggravating thing is that I was able to run /stand/sysinstall at one point, and I had it working! However, I have now tried all the mouse configuration options under post installation configuration, and none of them have worked. At various points I've been able to get X running, but to really make the laptop usable, I need a mouse - my last resort is going to be to try a serial mouse, but I don't have one handy. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. dbk David Knapp Network Analyst, Cal Poly, SLO [EMAIL PROTECTED] 805.748.4650 Knowing the path is not the same thing as walking the path --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.467 / Virus Database: 266 - Release Date: 4/1/2003 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.467 / Virus Database: 266 - Release Date: 4/1/2003 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fw: FreeBSD 5 on a laptop
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=328514+332780+/usr/local/www/db/text/2003/freebsd-current/20030323.freebsd-current I am trying to install FReeBSD 5 on an inspiron 2500. Everytime I try to install it hangs after loading the kernel. I have looked into it and it seems that there is a problem with the default kernel and the devices on the laptop (sound card I believe)... How can I go about installing FreeBSD??? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD 5 on a laptop
I am trying to install FReeBSD 5 on an inspiron 2500. Everytime I try to install it hangs after loading the kernel. I have looked into it and it seems that there is a problem with the default kernel and the devices on the laptop (sound card I believe)... How can I go about installing FreeBSD??? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptop with PCcard ethernet: how to set up?
Paul Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a laptop with an Ethernet PCcard which comes up as ep0. I want to use DHCP on it. My rc.conf has: pccard_enable=YES pccard_ifconfig=YES ifconfig_ep0=DHCP The card comes up fine, but it doesn't get ifconfig'd. Do I need to add something else to rc.conf? 1. You don't need the ifconfig_ep0 line. 2. Change the pccard_ifconfig value to either DHCP or something like inet 192.168.1.1/24. -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptop with PCcard ethernet: how to set up?
At 8:14 AM -0500 3/30/03, Dan Pelleg wrote: I have a laptop with an Ethernet PCcard which comes up as ep0. I want to use DHCP on it. My rc.conf has: pccard_enable=YES pccard_ifconfig=YES ifconfig_ep0=DHCP The card comes up fine, but it doesn't get ifconfig'd. Do I need to add something else to rc.conf? 1. You don't need the ifconfig_ep0 line. 2. Change the pccard_ifconfig value to either DHCP or something like inet 192.168.1.1/24. That worked fine, thanks! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Laptop with PCcard ethernet: how to set up?
I have a laptop with an Ethernet PCcard which comes up as ep0. I want to use DHCP on it. My rc.conf has: pccard_enable=YES pccard_ifconfig=YES ifconfig_ep0=DHCP The card comes up fine, but it doesn't get ifconfig'd. Do I need to add something else to rc.conf? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
vidcontrol(1) FreeBSD 5.0 on Laptop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey everyone, I just encountered a very strange problem with my notebook thats running 5.0-RELEASE and XFree86. Normally the regular color of the plain VT is a black background with a white forground. I have been running XFree86 on the laptop for about a month. Everynow and then when I close the laptop lid while XFree86 is still running when I re-open the top the screen is black and in some kinda suspend mode. I was meaning to disable this in the BIOS. But the last time it happened, the background of the VT is blue and the forground is black. And if i do this command: `vidcontrol white black`, and it stays with the blue background and the black forground. It's almost as if XFree86 somehow munged the original values for vidcontrol are set to. Do any of you know where these values might be held? Or has anyone seen something like this before? Thanks a ton for any help. ~Shane Kinney Build Ramps, Not Bombs. pgp key: http://www.freebsdhackers.net/pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+dganIyUr/yoGQnYRAq4GAJ9iktHkhM/2yEcp9gud76oq8kJGswCfaKZQ USPNuvWMTa+sVfUsruKs+VE= =8LWb -END PGP SIGNATURE- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Problems with FreeBSD and Laptop
Dear list, I have a Sony PCG-GR114EK notebook and I'm trying to get FreeBSD to work on it with varying degrees of success. I've tried 4.6, 4.7 and 5.0 and I'll give the errors in that order. FreeBSD 4.6. This installs the best and I don't have any problems except when trying to run XFree86 (Version 4.2.0). I get an error message: (EE) Nor drivers available. I have a Radeon Mobility which should work as far as I know. When I setup XFree86 I couldn't find any ATI drivers but I have read that this is a known issue. I've tried using autoconfigure but the resulting configuration causes the laptop to freeze and I haven't found anything better than switching off the power in order to regain control :-/ I have tried all various setup routines including trying to use VESA. I know that VESA drivers work as the machine boots fine with VESA drivers for BeOS. FreeBSD 4.7. I can install 4.7 but I think I have the same XFree86 problems as with 4.6. However, the biggest problem seems to be with umass I get lots of umass0: CBI reset failed, TIMEOUT messages when I boot from the install CD and subsequently after installing. From another post it looks like umass has something to do with USB. Is there anything I can do to disable this? I've also had problems with ATA similar to those noted in 5.0 below. FreeBSD 5.0. I was hoping the most recent version would have the best hardware support. This may well be the case but I have a showstopper as I can't install from the CD. Either the install hangs on the Cardbus detection cbb1: RFC5C476 PCI-CardBus Bridge at device 5.1 on pci2 or if I do get further I get into setup, choose my options and sysinstall claims it can't find my CD/DVD. Just before that happens I get the message in the console that ata1-slave timeout waiting for interrupt, ata1-slave ATAPI can't identity failed - I can't get the following messages as it switches into sysinstall too quickly. Suggestions? Thanx for your help Charlie Clark To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
My Laptop (Sotec look-a-like) Experience.
(I blame) sis630 and lack of APM (AMI BIOS r1.07) I have had real problems with this thing. No APM incorrect signature (0x0) in dmesg. Under 4.7/8 I can't get pcmcia working. USB will not reset. Actually there are many problems since It does not know it has been asleep I guess. The disk controller under 4.7 says there is a bad cable (or non-ATA66 cable) so it does not enable Ultra DMA. Instead it falls back to 33mhz. I have read other lists stating that the sis5591 ata controller is new but backwards compatible (not) with the 5591. Under 5.0 the only way to make it boot is to disable ACPI all together. Otherwise while the disks are being probed it locks up. So I have never had fun with this thing. Sis630 chipset. pcmcia (02micro 6912 PCI-Cardbus Bridge) stuff seems to work a lot better under 5.0. It does not work under 4.8-stable. I have not tested the usb under 5.0 but under 4.8-stable it will work for a little while and then stop. You have to reboot to get it back. I caught one panic in dmesg but it was probably my program. It talks to some sockets and the network basically. gpsd (GPS Daemon) does a terrible job listening to ucom0. I am using uplcom/ucom for serial communications. I have to run at 4800 baud. I am not sure it is supported by either the device or the driver but it works for a while. Has anyone else had luck with this machine? I actually got a hardened version of it with 40gb disk (5400rpm), fire wire and integrated 802.11b. But not worth the 1300 payed so far. Is there anyone out there that can help me out. I am a little stupid. Things seems a little more hopeful on the linux front. But man I have written some crappie mapping coordinate grabber that depends on bpf. If this link works. Here it is. http://www.samsclub.com/eclub/main_shopping.jsp?mt=an=0BV_SessionID=_SC_0474681676.1047332546_CS_BV_EngineID=adchjmhdiejcfkfcfkjdgoodfkg.0coe=0oidPath=0%3a-23542%3a-23588%3a-24196%3a684722 So I was thinking about getting this instead. But I am of course worried about the sis650 chipset now. My boss is trying to convert me to using Debian and I just don't want it. Any thoughts on the following hardware or is it a total crap shoot? I have looked at the Hardware pages and cant find the sis650. A really really cool machine Includes built int camera, bluetooth, 802.11b, s-video out and serial port! http://64.227.236.145/miva/merchant.mv?Screen=PRODStore_Code=RTProduct_Code=NP4020 I am not on this list so please respond to my email. System Chip SiS M650 / SiS 962 Chipset LCD Screen 15 TFT SXGA+: IDT/ITSX95C Video Memory 8/16/32/64MB Share Memory Architecture (SMA) Video Control Chip SIS M650 Ultra-AGPII Video-In Control Chip None Audio Control Chip Realtek ALC202 I/O Control Chip National Semiconductor NS87393V Integrated LAN Chip Realtek RTL8100BL Integrated Modem Controller Smartlink IEEE1394 Control Chip TI TSB 41AB1 Wireless LAN NeWeb U-300 802.11b (Mfg. Optional) Bluetooth Wireless Billionton (Mfg. Optional) Infrared Chip National Semiconductor NS87393V PCMCIA Contorl Chip ENE CB-1410 A1 Touch Pad ALPS Hard Disk Drive Varied Floppy Drive YE-DATA/YD-702J-6637J CD-ROM/DVD-ROM Drive Teac CD-224E CD-ROM (24X Max.), Teac DV-28E DVD (8X Max.), Toshiba SR-C8102 (16x10x24 Max.), Teac DW-224E (8X DVD/16x10x24 CD-RW ) Combo Miscellanies Integrated Video Camera Camtel CMM-3130 Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.8-RC #25: Wed Mar 5 10:04:29 GMT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/LAPTOP Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1000MHz (733.36-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x6b1 Stepping = 1 Features=0x383f9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE real memory = 335478784 (327616K bytes) config q avail memory = 322600960 (315040K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel kernel at 0xc0368000. Preloaded userconfig_script /boot/kernel.conf at 0xc036809c. Preloaded elf module uplcom.ko at 0xc03680ec. Preloaded elf module ucom.ko at 0xc036818c. Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled Using $PIR table, 5 entries at 0xc00f8de0 apm: incorrect signature (0x0) npx0: math processor on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: Host to PCI bridge on motherboard pci0: PCI
Re: Suggested Laptop system
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Tak Pui LOU wrote: Subject: Suggested Laptop system Hi All, Could anyone suggest a laptop model which has all the device support by FBSD? I don't want something too old but I want to have sound card, network card, etc. working under FreeBSD. Thanks, --- Lou Pick a few based on price and performace, and use google to see how well the individual chipsets are supported. I've installed FBSD on several Thinkpads, and they've all behaved well. The only problems with a modern laptop and FBSD is winmodem support (if you need it, and it may work) and power management. The battery may not last as long as you think. A good place to see how well a particular model is supported is here: http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ There are some similar sites for FBSD too. HTH - JB ___ John Bleichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
[LAPTOP]: Use of external keyboard with dockable station issue
Hello, I'm using a Compaq Armada E500 laptop and, after some normal newbies problems, I I succeed in installating the FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE. These are my first steps into freebsd... As I have a dockable station, I've tried to plug my laptop into the dock in order to use it with externals monitor, mouse and keyboard. The problem come with the keyboard which does not work at all once the boot is finished. What is strange is that at the beginning of the boot session, the keyboard seems to work fine (keyboard leds switched on) as I'm able to launch the boot process, by pressing the Enter key, before the 10 seconds countdown end. But once this step passed, and arriving to the login phase the keyboard doesn't not work. As the embedded keyboard of the laptop is not accessible (plugged into the dock), I'm only able to turn off the laptop. Could you help me with this issue ? May be I have to build a new kernel while using the laptop outside its dock. But as I'm a newbies I don't know how to declare 2 keyboards into my kernel configuration file. Thanks, Sylvain. -- Sylvain L'HARIDON mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Compaq laptop CDROM troubles
I am trying to mount the CD on on Compaq Presario 1620 running 4.6- STABLE (1 Aug 2002). FWIW, I do not know if this CD drive is in operating condition and have never used the CD drive. dmesg shows this: acd0: CDROM TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1602B at ata1-master PIO4 Attempts to mount give this error: # mount /dev/acd0a /cdrom acd0: TEST_UNIT_READY - MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x57 ascq=0x00 error=0x00 acd0: TEST_UNIT_READY - MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x57 ascq=0x00 error=0x00 mount: /dev/acd0a: Input/output error # mount -t cd9660 -o ro /dev/acd0c /cdrom acd0: TEST_UNIT_READY - MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x57 ascq=0x00 error=0x00 acd0: TEST_UNIT_READY - MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x57 ascq=0x00 error=0x00 acd0: TEST_UNIT_READY - MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x57 ascq=0x00 error=0x00 cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Input/output error If I don't have a CD in the drive, I get this error: # mount -t cd9660 -o ro /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Input/output error Is this an indication that the drive is functional Clues? Thank you. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
laptop firewall NICs
Howdy all, I'm attempting to use a Toshiba TECRA 8000 running 5.0-release as the firewall for my home network. It's running right now, but I'm seeing some sketchy network behavior and I think it's one of the NICs. Basically, when I'm doing something fairly network-intensive (like large NNTP downloads) my bandwidth usage fluctuates wildly. I also will get a lot of connections reset and such. I think it's my ed1 interface (which is my inside interface), because when I had ed1 as my outside interface and in promiscuous mode (for snort) I was getting a lot errors like: Feb 14 15:00:37 elijah kernel: ed1: NIC memory corrupt - invalid packet length 4 When I changed my dc0 interface to be my outside, promiscuous interface, these errors went away. My current dmesg info is as follows. ed1: Linksys Combo EthernetCard at port 0x100-0x11f irq 11 function 0 config 16 on pccard0 ed1: address 00:e0:98:88:91:84, type Linksys (16 bit) ukphy0: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface on miibus0 ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto dc0: Xircom X3201 10/100BaseTX port 0x1000-0x107f mem 0x88002400-0x880024ff,0x88002500-0x8800257f irq 11 at device 0.0 on cardbus1 dc0: Ethernet address: 06:00:06:29:52:90 miibus1: MII bus on dc0 tdkphy0: TDK 78Q2120 media interface on miibus1 tdkphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto Anyway, so I recently got a Xircom 10/100 cardbus NIC to replace my linksys (ed1) card. However, when I boot up with this NIC, I get to the point where my interfaces are going to be configured (after setting hostname) and the machine locks up. Here's the dmesg info for the new card. dc1: Xircom X3201 10/100BaseTX port 0x1080-0x10ff mem 0x88002000-0x880020ff,0x88002100-0x8800217f irq 11 at device 0.0 on cardbus0 dc1: Ethernet address: 06:00:10:a4:03:3f miibus0: MII bus on dc1 Would it help if I rebuilt my kernel and specified the irq, mem and port for dc0 and dc1? Thanks in advance for any help, -- Shane Hickey : Network/System Consultant GPG KeyID: 777CBF3F Key fingerprint: 254F B2AC 9939 C715 278C DA95 4109 9F69 777C BF3F Listening to: Bright Eyes - Lover I Dont Have To Love To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
5.0-RELEASE kernel boot problem on acer travelmate 210TEV (laptop)
I've been using 4.X for some time with no problems(that I can remember =) So i'm booting the install 5-RELEASE mini cd : Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel] in 8 seconds... Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help. OK set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 OK boot kernel . . Preloaded mfs_root /boot/mfsroot at 0xc0600a8. Timercounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz Timercounter TSC frequency 697419320 Hz CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (697.42-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel id = 0x686 Stepping = 6 Features=0x383f9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE real memory = 125763584 (119 MB) avail memory = 36768 (105 MB) Initializing GEOMetry subsystem Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled md0: Preloaded image /boot/mfsroot 4423680 bytes at 0xc062679c npx0: math processor on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface Using: $PIR table, 5 entries at 0xc00fb9d0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: PCI bus on pcib0 agp0: Ali Generic host to PCI bridge mem 0xe000-0xe3ff at device 0.0 on pci0 panic: contigmalloc1: size must not be 0 Uptime: 1s Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort Thanks =D To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
laptop power managment
Hello- i have a laptop that i run bsd4.7 on that i like to leave up for long periods of time. What i would like to do is put the monitor flap down. when i do that the power management kicks in and starts turning things off for example my (PCMCIA nic). i don't want it to do that anymore. is there a document out there that can help me configure bsd not to turn these devices off? thanks, b To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: laptop power managment
Hello- i have a laptop that i run bsd4.7 on that i like to leave up for long periods of time. What i would like to do is put the monitor flap down. when i do that the power management kicks in and starts turning things off for example my (PCMCIA nic). i don't want it to do that anymore. is there a document out there that can help me configure bsd not to turn these devices off? Most laptops allow this to be changed in the bios, since the bios determins that should be done when the lid is closed. Marcel To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: 5.0-RELEASE kernel boot problem on acer travelmate 210TEV (laptop)
On Friday 21 February 2003 02:50 pm, Michael wrote: (snipped) I've been using 4.X for some time with no problems(that I can remember =) So i'm booting the install 5-RELEASE mini cd : Ok this is getting out of hand. 5.0 is a testing release. See: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/early-adopter.html so of course it is not going to work for everything. Development is proceeding rapidly on 5.0, so the problem you're seeing may be fixed already. Installing -current would be the only way to know. if you tried that and got the same error, then they would love to hear about it on the -current mailing list so that it can be properly fixed. It's not likely it will ever be fixed for 5.0 release, which is a static point on an again, rapidly moving, development track. If 4.x works well then use that, or if you want to experiment try -current, perhaps by installing a snapshot. As a side note, should we put something in the FAQ about this, pointing to the early adopters guide perhaps? I'll write it up if someone will mark it up and commit it. Just my thoughts, Tim Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel] in 8 seconds... Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help. OK set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 OK boot kernel . . Preloaded mfs_root /boot/mfsroot at 0xc0600a8. Timercounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz Timercounter TSC frequency 697419320 Hz CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (697.42-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel id = 0x686 Stepping = 6 Features=0x383f9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE real memory = 125763584 (119 MB) avail memory = 36768 (105 MB) Initializing GEOMetry subsystem Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled md0: Preloaded image /boot/mfsroot 4423680 bytes at 0xc062679c npx0: math processor on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface Using: $PIR table, 5 entries at 0xc00fb9d0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: PCI bus on pcib0 agp0: Ali Generic host to PCI bridge mem 0xe000-0xe3ff at device 0.0 on pci0 panic: contigmalloc1: size must not be 0 Uptime: 1s Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: 5.0-RELEASE kernel boot problem on acer travelmate 210TEV(laptop)
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 18:46:09 +0100 taxman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 21 February 2003 02:50 pm, Michael wrote: (snipped) I've been using 4.X for some time with no problems(that I can remember =) So i'm booting the install 5-RELEASE mini cd : Ok this is getting out of hand. 5.0 is a testing release. See: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/early-adopter.html so of course it is not going to work for everything. Development is proceeding rapidly on 5.0, so the problem you're seeing may be fixed already. Installing -current would be the only way to know. if you tried that and got the same error, then they would love to hear about it on the -current mailing list so that it can be properly fixed. It's not likely it will ever be fixed for 5.0 release, which is a static point on an again, rapidly moving, development track. If 4.x works well then use that, or if you want to experiment try -current, perhaps by installing a snapshot. Thanks, didn't realise 5-RELEASE was still current, anyway how should I report something like this to current ? I mean is there some sort of backtrace I can do after it panics that would be more useful than just this oneline message? :P To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: 5.0-RELEASE kernel boot problem on acer travelmate 210TEV (laptop)
On Saturday 22 February 2003 03:24 am, Michael wrote: On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 18:46:09 +0100 taxman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 21 February 2003 02:50 pm, Michael wrote: (snipped) I've been using 4.X for some time with no problems(that I can remember =) So i'm booting the install 5-RELEASE mini cd : Ok this is getting out of hand. 5.0 is a testing release. See: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/early-adopter.html so of course it is not going to work for everything. Development is proceeding rapidly on 5.0, so the problem you're seeing may be fixed already. Installing -current would be the only way to know. if you tried that and got the same error, then they would love to hear about it on the -current mailing list so that it can be properly fixed. It's not likely it will ever be fixed for 5.0 release, which is a static point on an again, rapidly moving, development track. If 4.x works well then use that, or if you want to experiment try -current, perhaps by installing a snapshot. Thanks, didn't realise 5-RELEASE was still current, It is and I didn't mean to be so harsh to you specifically. It was more that so many people are missing that bit of info that maybe it should be a FAQ now. anyway how should I report something like this to current ? I mean is there some sort of backtrace I can do after it panics that would be more useful than just this oneline message? :P boot -v (at the initial prompt) may be helpful, but I don't know on 5.0 What I was getting at was maybe this has already been fixed in the -current development track, so it would be really irritating to them if you asked about a fixed issue. So first try installing a snapshot: http://snapshots.jp.freebsd.org/ As explained there, they are built every day from -current sources. If the normal installation CD ISO there boots fine, consider your problem fixed in -current. You could try the bootonly or cdboot cd ISO's first, but they may be a bit different than the normal boot process. If your problem is not fixed in the latest -current snapshot, then send a question with the ouptut of boot -v to the freebsd-current mailing list, perhaps along with a copy of dmesg from 4.x running on the machine in question. Good luck, Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
FreeBSD laptop. $799. looks good
in case anyone didn't hear from Slashdot already, Lindows the linux company is selling a nice small laptop for $799. And if it'll run Linux I'll bet it'll run FreeBSD: http://info.lindows.com/mobilepc/mobilepc.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
5.0 or 4.7 for a new laptop
I'm getting a new laptop, probably a Compaq EVO N410c. Which would I be better of installing 5.0 or 4.7? -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: 5.0 or 4.7 for a new laptop
+ stan wrote: | I'm getting a new laptop, probably a Compaq EVO N410c. | | Which would I be better of installing 5.0 or 4.7? Stick to 4.7 - 5.0 is not quite ready for primetime, but feel free to try it, as long as you are aware that it may not be perfectly stable. -- Steve Tremblett To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: 5.0 or 4.7 for a new laptop
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 09:36:41PM -0500, Steve Tremblett wrote: + stan wrote: | I'm getting a new laptop, probably a Compaq EVO N410c. | | Which would I be better of installing 5.0 or 4.7? Stick to 4.7 - 5.0 is not quite ready for primetime, but feel free to try it, as long as you are aware that it may not be perfectly stable. Thnanks, that may explain why it locked up instaed of booting :-) -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Laptop sugestions?
Tuc wrote: Try dell. Inspiron 8200 seems great. Of course you must be careful with the hardware, but for me there is another important feature that I take care every time I buy a laptop: keyboard. Today, there is a annoying tendency to put unuseful keyboards on laptops. Inspirons 8200 are great, but they weigh so much. If you are going to use it at your work maybe you don't mind that the laptop weigh four-five kg. Are all it's devices (screen network, modem et all) well supported under FreeBSD? I have had an 8200 since April last year, hard drive went on it last week so I had to re-install 4.7 from scratch. I use the built in ethernet (xl0) and have used the docking station ethernet (xl1). I didn't get the built in modem, since it was a WINMODEM. I mistakenly bought a Cardbus PCMCIA modem, so I couldn't use that. I ended up with an IBM X-jack PCMCIA from my old Thinkpad. I got it with the NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go card in it. The first incarnation I used the nv drivers, this time around I'm using the Nvidia supplied drivers. I'm running in 1400x1050 with 122 pixel clock, 64.89 H sync, 59.98 V sync. *snip* I use a Dell Latitude C840 that works great. All I had to do to get everything working was to install the nVidia drivers. X looks great, I have sound, and I can use the docking station without problems. I have not tried the built-in modem since I only use ethernet, but if you want to make sure I can give it a try and let you know what happens. -- R To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Laptop sugestions?
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:19:36PM -0500, stan wrote: Looks like I might be getting to order a new laptop at work to replace the 4 year old HP that I have. this machine will be a FreeBSD machine. great. What machines should I be looking at? Assume that I have about $2k to spend. Try dell. Inspiron 8200 seems great. Of course you must be careful with the hardware, but for me there is another important feature that I take care every time I buy a laptop: keyboard. Today, there is a annoying tendency to put unuseful keyboards on laptops. Inspirons 8200 are great, but they weigh so much. If you are going to use it at your work maybe you don't mind that the laptop weigh four-five kg. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Laptop sugestions?
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 10:02:25AM +0100, David Rio wrote: On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:19:36PM -0500, stan wrote: Looks like I might be getting to order a new laptop at work to replace the 4 year old HP that I have. this machine will be a FreeBSD machine. great. What machines should I be looking at? Assume that I have about $2k to spend. Try dell. Inspiron 8200 seems great. Of course you must be careful with the hardware, but for me there is another important feature that I take care every time I buy a laptop: keyboard. Today, there is a annoying tendency to put unuseful keyboards on laptops. Inspirons 8200 are great, but they weigh so much. If you are going to use it at your work maybe you don't mind that the laptop weigh four-five kg. Are all it's devices (screen network, modem et all) well supported under FreeBSD? -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Laptop sugestions?
On 7 Feb 2003 at 10:02, David Rio wrote: On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:19:36PM -0500, stan wrote: What machines should I be looking at? Assume that I have about $2k to spend. Try dell. Inspiron 8200 seems great. Of course you must be careful with the hardware, but for me there is another important feature that I take care every time I buy a laptop: keyboard. Today, there is a annoying tendency to put unuseful keyboards on laptops. Inspirons 8200 are great, but they weigh so much. If you are going to use it at your work maybe you don't mind that the laptop weigh four-five kg. If you like the Dells for FreeBSD, and like the keyboards, you should be aware that Dell uses that keyboard across quite a few notebooks, not all of them as heavy as the 8200. The Inspiron 4150 is a lighter machine, due to having a 1 inch smaller display and only two spindles (the 8200 has three, counting the module bay). On the Latitude side the C840 is essentially the same machine as the 8200, while the C510, C610 and C640 have the same base as the Inspiron 4150. The primary differences between Latitude and Inspiron versions are that Inspiron emphasizes style, while Latitude works with the broader range of Latitude docks. Note that the 8200/C840 can support a CAD-capable graphics card and has a really nice large display, if that's important to you and you can stand the weight. We do run mechanical CAD on our C800s and C810s. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Laptop sugestions?
Try dell. Inspiron 8200 seems great. Of course you must be careful with the hardware, but for me there is another important feature that I take care every time I buy a laptop: keyboard. Today, there is a annoying tendency to put unuseful keyboards on laptops. Inspirons 8200 are great, but they weigh so much. If you are going to use it at your work maybe you don't mind that the laptop weigh four-five kg. Are all it's devices (screen network, modem et all) well supported under FreeBSD? I have had an 8200 since April last year, hard drive went on it last week so I had to re-install 4.7 from scratch. I use the built in ethernet (xl0) and have used the docking station ethernet (xl1). I didn't get the built in modem, since it was a WINMODEM. I mistakenly bought a Cardbus PCMCIA modem, so I couldn't use that. I ended up with an IBM X-jack PCMCIA from my old Thinkpad. I got it with the NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go card in it. The first incarnation I used the nv drivers, this time around I'm using the Nvidia supplied drivers. I'm running in 1400x1050 with 122 pixel clock, 64.89 H sync, 59.98 V sync. The only problem I seem to have is with the mouse. I keep getting : Feb 6 21:10:56 himinbjorg /kernel: psmintr: out of sync (00c0 != ). Feb 6 21:10:56 himinbjorg /kernel: psmintr: discard a byte (1). Feb 6 21:10:56 himinbjorg /kernel: psmintr: out of sync (00c0 != ). Feb 6 21:10:56 himinbjorg /kernel: psmintr: discard a byte (2). Feb 6 21:10:57 himinbjorg /kernel: psmintr: out of sync (00c0 != ). Feb 6 21:10:57 himinbjorg /kernel: psmintr: re-enable the mouse. Feb 6 21:10:57 himinbjorg /kernel: psmintr: out of sync (00c0 != ). Feb 6 21:10:57 himinbjorg /kernel: psmintr: discard a byte (4). Feb 6 21:11:01 himinbjorg /kernel: psmintr: delay too long; resetting byte coun t and the mouse runs rampant and does nasty stuff. If anyone has a suggestion. I tried a few things, still won't stop it. Otherwise, besides the deep groove in my shoulder, I love this beast. (Well, except for losing a HD after 8 months) Tuc/TTSG Internet Services, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: laptop suspend when close cover?
no one has any ideas?? Dave On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 22:56, David Loszewski wrote: I loaded on FreeBSD 5.0 onto my laptop and now when I close the lid on the laptop my laptop goes into what I think is a suspend mode where my network card stops recieving or sending packets and it's like my laptop turns off and when you open the lid back up it doesn't turn back on correctly. With FreeBSD 4.7 if I closed the lid it would only turn off the screen and I checked my bios but I don't see any wrong settings in it. Any advice would help. Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Laptop sugestions?
with apologies that I'm sending this to the Dell thread, but I seem to have lost the initial message * David Rio [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-07-02 10:02]: On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:19:36PM -0500, stan wrote: What machines should I be looking at? Assume that I have about $2k to spend. I've got a Gateway 450L, and it's working just fine for me. Pretty much everything important seems to be supported (haven't tried FireWire or Xinerama yet though, or the PCMCIA slots, and have no clue about the onboard modem). In March I should know about ACPI support for it in 5.x, but for now I'm running 4-STABLE it works quite well. APM suspend doesn't work properly, however (the machine doesn't come out of suspend mode). Internal NIC, sound card, USB, keyboard, and touchpad all work nice, though. And monitor/video card (there are some issues with 3D acceleration, however). All in all, it works about as well as I expected out of anything. HTH, Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Laptop sugestions?
Looks like I might be getting to order a new laptop at work to replace the 4 year old HP that I have. this machine will be a FreeBSD machine. What machines should I be looking at? Assume that I have about $2k to spend. -- They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
laptop suspend when close cover?
I loaded on FreeBSD 5.0 onto my laptop and now when I close the lid on the laptop my laptop goes into what I think is a suspend mode where my network card stops recieving or sending packets and it's like my laptop turns off and when you open the lid back up it doesn't turn back on correctly. With FreeBSD 4.7 if I closed the lid it would only turn off the screen and I checked my bios but I don't see any wrong settings in it. Any advice would help. Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Xf86config res too small on laptop
I am trying to use the xf86config graphics utility on my Dell Cpi laptop, but the resolution is very small. Its pry like 340x something. I can't see all of the menus. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Xf86config res too small on laptop
Adam M Ryan wrote: I am using the xf86cfg, which takes the graphical display and just makes the res really small, not letting me see the entire menus. When I say small I mean its using like 300 something. So its really big, is there some keyboard controls to make it so I can see all of the menu or something else so I can configure X? Hi Adam! I had to actually modify my XF86config file myself to get the laptop have a greater resolution. I'm using 1024x768 on a Sony VAIO laptop! As I'm really short on time now, I have to go to work relllyy fast but I'll send you my config file as soon as possible if you didn't find the answer before I do it ! It will probably be tonight though (got loads of work). Cya -- Pierrick Brossin IT Employee 15, Ch. du Château, 1422 Grandson, Switzerland Tel Prof: +41-327201423 Mobile Priv: +41-794137145 Mail Prof: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail Priv: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Configuring mouse on laptop
Hi everyone, I'm very new to FreeBSD (I've been using it for about a week now). I've been a Linux user for about 3 years but I'm finding that BSD is definitely different in many ways. I have an IBM Thinkpad 570 (PII-366MHz) laptop that I've installed FreeBSD 4.7 on. The installation went okay but I'm having a problem getting the mouse working. When I enter Windowmaker, my mouse jumps all over the screen. I've even tried an external PS/2 mouse with the same results. I've run xf86config numerous times trying different configurations with no luck. I've researched the web but still have come up empty handed. I would appreciate any help that you can give. Thanks! Chad __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Configuring mouse on laptop
Chad McCullough wrote: When I enter Windowmaker, my mouse jumps all over the screen. I've even tried an external PS/2 mouse with the same results. Could you please paste the mouse section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file please? It should be easy to solve. My config file looks like the following: -- Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol MouseSystems Option Device /dev/sysmouse Option ButtonNumber 4 EndSection -- I have a sony vaio laptop with one of these stupid touchpad :) Cya -- Pierrick Brossin IT Employee 15, Ch. du Château, 1422 Grandson, Switzerland Tel Prof: +41-327201423 Mobile Priv: +41-794137145 Mail Prof: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail Priv: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Configuring mouse on laptop
I have an IBM Thinkpad 570 (PII-366MHz) laptop that I've installed FreeBSD 4.7 on. The installation went okay but I'm having a problem getting the mouse working. When I enter Windowmaker, my mouse jumps all over the screen. This works for me (Thinkpad X21, 4.7 stable): Section InputDevice # Identifier and driver Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option ProtocolMouseSystems Option Device /dev/sysmouse EndSection -volker To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
USB Mouse and laptop
If I start my system (4.7) with the USB Mouse plugged in it works. If I plug it after or if I remove it and then plug it again it wont work. I discovered the sleep laptop function APM ! I thought it would never work on my laptop ! So I'm also loosing the mouse when the laptop goes sleeping Any help? Thanks in advance. --uwi mAn _ Get a speedy connection with MSN Broadband. Join now! http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/freeactivation.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
problem using pcmcia modem on laptop
I'm having a problem using my pcmcia modem that I have on my Xircon card. When I try to use kppp with KDE it freezes when I try to query the modem. I couldn't find any references to pcmcia modems in the handbook, could someone point me in the right direction? Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: problem using pcmcia modem on laptop
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, David Loszewski wrote: Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 21:50:12 -0500 From: David Loszewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: problem using pcmcia modem on laptop I'm having a problem using my pcmcia modem that I have on my Xircon card. When I try to use kppp with KDE it freezes when I try to query the modem. I couldn't find any references to pcmcia modems in the handbook, could someone point me in the right direction? Dave I would take this to the freebsd-mobile mailing list, and if possible provide the output of the 'dmesg' command, and maybe the output of 'pciconf -l'. These commands will provide a specific description of all the hardware involved. HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Failed install of 4.7 on laptop...
Bob Johnson said: Mike Berning appears to have written: When I attempt to install FreeBSD 4.7, or any 4.x for that matter, I recieve this error during the initial boot. pci0: unknown card (vendor = 0x8086, dev = 0x2445) at 31.5 irq 11 pci0: unknown card (vendor = 0x8086, dev = 0x2445) at 31.6 irq 11 Are you getting any other error messages or clues? Is the error message above the last thing that appears on the screen? If not, what is? - Bob Those two lines are the last thing that appear on screen, once it reaches that point it simply sits there for eternity. I attempted to use the 5.0 current kernel and it stopped at the same point, however, it did recognize that it was a multimedia device, and that it had no driver for it. I was able to install Mandrake, without sound support, with no problems. Thanks again for the help. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Failed install of 4.7 on laptop...
When I attempt to install FreeBSD 4.7, or any 4.x for that matter, I recieve this error during the initial boot. pci0: unknown card (vendor = 0x8086, dev = 0x2445) at 31.5 irq 11 pci0: unknown card (vendor = 0x8086, dev = 0x2445) at 31.6 irq 11 I've tried doing a kernel configuration to disable device pci0, but it says that this device doesn't exist. I know that pci0 is my soundcard because I tried to install 5.0 and it showed that it was multimedia device and soundcard. There is no way to disable sound in the bios. Does anybody have an idea about how to get around this problem, thanks in advance, mike ps laptop is toshiba satellite 1905-S301 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Failed install of 4.7 on laptop...
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Mike Berning wrote: Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:35:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Berning [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Failed install of 4.7 on laptop... When I attempt to install FreeBSD 4.7, or any 4.x for that matter, I recieve this error during the initial boot. pci0: unknown card (vendor = 0x8086, dev = 0x2445) at 31.5 irq 11 pci0: unknown card (vendor = 0x8086, dev = 0x2445) at 31.6 irq 11 I've tried doing a kernel configuration to disable device pci0, but it says that this device doesn't exist. I know that pci0 is my soundcard because I tried to install 5.0 and it showed that it was multimedia device and soundcard. There is no way to disable sound in the bios. Does anybody have an idea about how to get around this problem, thanks in advance, mike ps laptop is toshiba satellite 1905-S301 Is this blocking the install or just an error you see during the install? On my Thinkpad there is a win32 utility available from IBM to set/disable all the onboard devices. Luckily there's also a Linux utility ps2). Does Toshiba provide any such utility? Search the freebsd-mobile list archives for your Satellite. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Failed install of 4.7 on laptop...
John Bleichert said: Is this blocking the install or just an error you see during the install? On my Thinkpad there is a win32 utility available from IBM to set/disable all the onboard devices. Luckily there's also a Linux utility ps2). Does Toshiba provide any such utility? Search the freebsd-mobile list archives for your Satellite. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg This is blocking me from installing the system because it simply won't run FreeBSD. Thanks for the suggestion on freebsd-mobile and the toshiba utilities, I'll look into it. Thanks again, mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Failed install of 4.7 on laptop...
On Monday 14 October 2002 02:35 pm, Mike Berning appears to have written: When I attempt to install FreeBSD 4.7, or any 4.x for that matter, I recieve this error during the initial boot. pci0: unknown card (vendor = 0x8086, dev = 0x2445) at 31.5 irq 11 pci0: unknown card (vendor = 0x8086, dev = 0x2445) at 31.6 irq 11 Unless something changed with 4.7, that error shouldn't prevent installation, unless the unknown card was some critical device, like your hard drive. If it is simply your sound card, the install should continue happily without it. I've tried doing a kernel configuration to disable device pci0, but it says that this device doesn't exist. I know that pci0 is my soundcard because I tried to install 5.0 and it showed that it was multimedia device and soundcard. There is no way to disable sound in the bios. Does anybody have an idea about how to get around this problem, thanks in advance, mike Are you getting any other error messages or clues? Is the error message above the last thing that appears on the screen? If not, what is? - Bob ps laptop is toshiba satellite 1905-S301 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: Failed install of 4.7 on laptop...
This should get you past that: Booting [kernel] in 10 seconds... [press space key] ok boot -c [...boot messages...] config eisa 0 config quit hth, Chris Kulish -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Bob Johnson Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 10:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Failed install of 4.7 on laptop... On Monday 14 October 2002 02:35 pm, Mike Berning appears to have written: When I attempt to install FreeBSD 4.7, or any 4.x for that matter, I recieve this error during the initial boot. pci0: unknown card (vendor = 0x8086, dev = 0x2445) at 31.5 irq 11 pci0: unknown card (vendor = 0x8086, dev = 0x2445) at 31.6 irq 11 Unless something changed with 4.7, that error shouldn't prevent installation, unless the unknown card was some critical device, like your hard drive. If it is simply your sound card, the install should continue happily without it. I've tried doing a kernel configuration to disable device pci0, but it says that this device doesn't exist. I know that pci0 is my soundcard because I tried to install 5.0 and it showed that it was multimedia device and soundcard. There is no way to disable sound in the bios. Does anybody have an idea about how to get around this problem, thanks in advance, mike Are you getting any other error messages or clues? Is the error message above the last thing that appears on the screen? If not, what is? - Bob ps laptop is toshiba satellite 1905-S301 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: Laptop sound
Ok Sony left this out of my BIOS. What now? Have you tried to put options PNPBIOS in your kernel config file and then make a new kernel? This works on SOME laptops. -- Torfinn Ingolfsen Norway To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Laptop sound
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 11:14:48PM -0700, Pookie wrote: I have a Sony Vaio GRX-570 running FreeBSD 4.6. Im attempting to get my sound working, but im receiving an error: Dmesg: Pcm0: Intel 82801CA (IHC3)... irq 9 at device 31.5 on pci0 After I try playing something in xmms I get: Pcm0:play:0:play interrupt timeout, channel dead Why does it do this, and how is it fixed? Perhaps it relates to http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/34942 -- Regards, -*Sue*- http://www.sievx.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
